Skinny VS Curvy

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My days can be really busy, so when I grab a snack, I want it to work as hard as I am. I want it to give me energy, fill me up [and] fuel my body. I like to grab veggies, like baby carrots or a handful of almonds. I also look for snacks that are high in protein and fat free, like Greek yogurt, which has two times the protein of regular yogurt to help satisfy hunger. Blueberries and apples are amazing, too. I often take apple slices to work with me.

… says 32 year-old Maria.

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Kate Walsh brings our quote of the day:

On aging:
“It certainly requires you to take care of yourself. But I like to eat food, and I don’t diet,” she says. “I do Pilates, and hike with my dog. As you get older, everything changes. Everything starts getting … looser. But I think it’s important to accept that. I’m lucky. I’ve got pretty good genes. But I think it’s a weird thing to fight it.”

… says 43 year-old Kate in People Magazine.

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We’ve had a million requests to post ultra skinny Giuliana’s diet and excessive ‘how to save calories’ tips, so here it is: a full, detailed meal plan coming from ‘Don’t eat cupcakes!!’-Giuliana, via her website.

Some of the ‘highlights’:

- she is not eating for about 3 hours after she wakes up, but works out.

- she considers ‘having a few bites of pasta’ once a week her ‘cheating’.

- she constantly consumes cayenne pepper in her water to increse her metabolism.

- she makes it clear many times: NOT ONE DROP OF BUTTER EVER, NO OIL!

For many, many more, check out the full piece!

WAKE UP
I wake up at 4:35 am and i’m at the gym by 5am so i don’t have enough time to eat and digest before i get on the treadmill. Therefore, since i DON’T drink coffee, I drink a tea called Yerba Mate. I boil a pot of it at night and put it in a tall glass or pitcher and let it cool down in the fridge overnight. In the morning, I start drinking it right when I wake up so that I have energy by the time I get to the gym. Yerba Mate can be found online or at grocery stores and most brands are good. I love it because it is a NATURAL source of great energy perfect before a workout.

BREAKFAST
After my workout, I head to my 6:30 morning meeting and I drink a 16 oz bottle of water with lemon and a pinch of cayenne pepper in it. This is a great way to wake up your body and get it ready for the food you will soon put into it. I sip my hot green or oolong tea (teagarden.com) from Dr. Tea’s Garden. He is on Melrose Blvd at a place called Tea Garden and before my wedding he had me drinking various slimming teas like oolong and another he made for me called Ti Kwan Yin Oolong. I believe Dr. Tea is moving locations, so I am going to start ordering off his website (teagarden.com) I drink two to three cups a day. I have gotten a few people at work on tea (instead of coffee) and they looove it!!! Coffee can actually hold onto fat whereas green and oolong tea flushes fat out (love that). At this time, I also open up a bottle of GT’s Kombucha in Citrus or Gingerade flavor (gtskombucha.com) I’m also loving the Gingerberry flavor which tastes the best of the three. I sip this throughout the day because it is very good for you and it totally helps with hunger cravings. (see below under Drinks for more info)

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Vanessa Hudgens rocks a bikini on the cover of Shape Magazine, showing off her nicely toned figure. Let’s see what she says in the interview:

Back in 2007, Hudgens was like many teenagers: completely addicted to junk food. “I was so unhealthy,” she admits. “I used to go to Cold Stone Creamery, get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.”

Her aha moment came while she was on tour with High School Musical that year. The company took a short break, so Hudgens stopped doing the rigorous dance routines for a few weeks. “When I came back, I almost couldn’t get my costume on. I needed to do something about my diet.”

First, she started eating breakfast every day. “I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit,” she says. For lunch and dinner, she has a spinach salad with grilled chicken or salmon, marcona almonds, feta, a little truffle oil, and a sprinkle of pink Himalayan sea salt. “It’s my favorite meal,” she says. “When you’re putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.”

… says Vanessa in Shape Magazine.

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On how she lost weight for the Black Swan:

“I was on a five meal-a-day diet of 1,200 calories. I could eat anything that fit into the palm of my hand. That’s it.

“It was hell but I wouldn’t trade it for the world… How often can you lose 20 pounds, get en pointe and work with brilliant people.”

… says Mila.

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